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BOSCH
D.N.A Electronics Challenge

Discover Nurture Align

BOSCH
D.N.A Electronics Challenge

Discover Nurture Align

About Challenge ↓

Bosch will provide problem statements from their focus industry verticals. The
challenges will broadly fall into the categories of Smart City, IOT, Wearables, Robotics
and embedded electronic products

There will be at least 5 challenges. Teams (of max 3 members) will send their solution
for one or more challenge via the website before 01 Jan 2017. The solution proposal
should clearly specify the approach and the components to be used

The proposals are evaluated by a team from Bosch and Maker village and the better teams
are called in March 2017 to present their idea to a panel either in person or via video
conferencing/Skype.

Best solutions will be selected and offered pre-incubation for about 3 months
(April-June 2017) at Maker Village, Kochi, to develop a prototype. Bosch will sponsor
the pre-incubation at Maker Village. The teams can also choose to work from their own
premises or make use of the facilities offered.

Prototyping support of up to Rs. 50000 per team will be offered by Bosch. Bosch
and Maker Village will support with maker space and mentorship. Bosch will also provide
the necessary support for prototyping parts, tools, software and accessories

Teams which are able to successfully demonstrate the prototype will be declared winners.
Each winning team will be offered a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh INR and incubation at Maker
Village, Kochi, for 12 months. They will be called Bosch scholars

Bosch will help the team (Bosch scholars) register as a startup and support their
product idea with industrialization and market reach. Bosch will offer them a monthly
stipend to cover living and boarding expenses at Kochi.

The Bosch scholars will be invited for a visit to the
Bosch facility in Bangalore or to study the whole process of product
design from idea to industry deployment

If a winning team chooses not a register the startup, the entire solution,
prototype and other IP will belong to Bosch

In case a startup is registered, the IP rights of the product stay with the startup and
Bosch has the Right of First Refusal.
Bosch will market the product for the startup based on mutual agreement

FAQ

The challenge is in 3 parts:
a. Application stage, that lasts a little over a month (20th Oct – 1st Jan, 2017)
b. Presentation, by selected teams during March 2017
c. Pre-incubation of the 10 best teams at Maker Village starting April 2017
Best prototypes at the end of the pre-incubation stage will be
awarded cash prize – Rs.1 lakh per team

Till the end of the pre-incubation stage, the IP belongs to Bosch. If
the team chooses to be incubated by Bosch at Maker Village, the newly registered
startup will own the IP. Bosch will have the first right of refusal of the emerging
product/solution at the end of the incubation stage.

We understand that teams comprising of students from final year of engineering will be able
to register the startup only after graduation/post-graduation. The winning teams will be
declared in June 2017. Each team will have till 30th Sep 2017 to register the startup.
Else, the prototype and other IP will belong to BOSCH Group

Bosch expects each team to work hard and achieve the goals they set out for themselves at
the start of incubation. Withdrawal from the incubation programme will incur a penalty and
is strongly discouraged.

Bosch will provide the necessary technical and business mentorship to the startup to
succeed. There are uncontrolled market dynamics that can make technology or business
viability untenable in the future.

The support available will be:
a. Introduction to VC funds
b. Bosch will provide an experience certificate to each member of the startup to support
them to pursue a career in the corporate sector

RULES

Participants:

Team event (upto 3 members). Open to all college students and young graduates. Minimum age for
participation is 18 years (as of 20th Oct 2016)

Objective:

Bosch has a list of problem statements and we are looking for solutions. The best solutions will
win cash prize and also have the option to create a startup funded by Bosch and be incubated at
Maker Village, Kochi

Format:

• Teams will send their proposals to one or more challenge of their choice
• Best solutions will be selected and offered pre-incubation for 3 months at Maker Village,
Kochi, to develop a prototype
• Bosch and Maker Village will support with maker space and mentorship
• Teams which are able to successfully demonstrate the prototype will be offered cash prize and
incubation at Maker Village, Kochi, for 18 months.They will be called Bosch scholars
• Bosch will help the team (Bosch scholars) register as a startup and support their product idea
with industrialization and market reach.

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Bosch has a list of problem statements and we are looking for
solutions. The best solutions will win cash prize and also have the option to create a startup
funded by Bosch and be incubated at Maker Village, Kochi